On Jan 8, 2008 9:01 AM, Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Not likely to change in the future, no. Slony uses triggers to manage the > > changed rows. We can't fire triggers on large object events, so there's no > > way for Slony to know what happened. > > that leads me to a question I often wanted to ask: > > is there any reason to create NEW PostgreSQL databases using Large > Objects, now that there is bytea and TOAST? (besides of legacy needs) > > as much as I read, they take special care in dump/restore; force the > use of some special APIs on creating, do not work with Slony .... The primary advantage of large objects is that you can read like byte by byte, like a file. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend